Caterpillar Jazz Talk Pattern 7. 2 2
Start each bar with the root of the chord. 3 3
So that's the safest thing that you can do. 4 4
That's the most guaranteed thing that's going to work. 5 5
But it's a matter of if you go there, and 6 6
what do you do with the next few notes to get to the next chord change. 7 7
So, you're just going straight to the chord note. 8 8
And the next chord's going to be F. 9 9
So you're not just gonna go, you got to get to F somehow. 10 10
You can either go straight up to it. 11 11
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Back to the B. 13 13
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So you can see you can stay close to the next written note, and 15 15
try to get to it somehow or other. 16 16
You can either go from below or from above 17 17
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Or you can just change the variety of it. 19 19
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Pattern 8, this is gonna be slightly different. 21 21
You're going to start each bar with a third of the chord. 22 22
So sometimes starting with the root is a bit obvious. 23 23
So the third sometimes takes you away from that. 24 24
Gives you a nicer [SOUND] it's more vague. 25 25
It's interesting. 26 26
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So you're still not doing too much. 28 28
You're bouncing on to the third or under the third. 29 29
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Into the B for third, there. 31 31
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Pattern 9. 33 33
Mix it Up. 34 34
This is where you get to experiment with all of the various ideas. 35 35
It's better to have some kind of underlying structure to start with or 36 36
to fall back on. 37 37
So this is why jazz musicians practice skills and patterns so much. 38 38
So let's go through the right hand. 39 39
You're gonna start with the riff. 40 40
One, two, three. 41 41
[SOUND] And you're going to go down to triad. 42 42
And you're going up a 7th, and you go down a scale, 43 43
then you're going to mirror the right hand, or the left hand, 44 44
and you're going to go up a scale right to the end. 45 45
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So one, two three, down in the triad. 47 47
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Up to 7th, straight, 49 49
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and you're going to mirror and the scale right to the end. 51 51
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And again you can try that smooth or with swing. 53 53
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